saved as datetime, tho this is handled differently in the next release - I was thinking varchar when I asked you to check, then checked myself, hence dumb request.

The datetime is utf formatted by the formatDateTime function in the News module. This should be passed onto your theme in the same format, so I'm not sure why it doesn't display correctly.

I'm not sure if this will work, but try inserting this line just below the global line in function newsindex of theme.php,

$time=formatDateTime($time, _DATESTRING);

I did this and I got another date, from year 1969

not much use - did it have the correct format?

oh well, I'm out of ideas - perhaps Akamu can help when he pops in

Actually, the new date [name of the day] doesn't have any of ş,ţ,â,î in it [in my language] so I'm not able to really tell if is wright or wrong.

This kind of "view" is happening when I edit something in ISO-8859-2 and the editor is set in Windows-1252 [western encoding].
The UTF-8 part is ok I think!

Thanks anyway, Phoenix, for trying.

Maybe here is the problem.
I checked the php manual for utf8_encode function
and it says

Quote::

utf8_encode -- Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8

so $datetime is converted in UTF-8 from ISO-8859-1 [but mai input is in ISO-8859-2 as it should].
So actually what I see on my page is an UTF-8 output of an ISO-8859-2 text "seen" as ISO-8859-1.
Is there a function to convert a string from ISO-8859-2 to ISO-8859-1 before encoding the text in UTF-8 or what should I do.

Even here on this site doesn't appear right.
It is "DuminicĂ" instead of "Duminică" as it should be or "SîmbĂtĂ" instead "Sâmbătă" [and it's not a translation error, I assure you].

Entered the server specs.